The competition was a sham and it cost the American Company Northrop Grumman lots of money in proposal costs.
I am sure you would not be concerned about Boeing and their proposal costs if they lost. And by the way, apparently you are not aware that Northrop Grumman did NOT bid. They withdrew from EADS. The bid was FRENCH EADS all the way. NG was not a part of this bid.
EADS, the french company that would build the parts to be assembled in the US, doesn't care about the US, and the french won't let us bid on their jets. . . and that is “fair.”
And it is always a bad thing to turn over our national security to another nation, especially the french. We get involved in another war somewhere and they think it wrong, bang, the french suspend deliveries and we have our tankers shut-off. Trust the french? No way.